The Future of Remote Working
With the greater acceptance of home working and after an enforced proof of concept, many facilities and production houses are asking: do we want to go back to having a full facility? And if not, what do we need?
The lockdown put various PC over IP solutions through a trial by fire, but the extent to which post and production companies want to use them post-lockdown varies wildly. Some want to get hot kit out of edit suites and into a virtually accessed machine room. Others want to extend that functionality to allow pop-up edit stations wherever required. And others are looking to move their hardware almost entirely into the cloud in a bid for ultimate flexibility and scalability with lower on-premises costs.
Whatever you want to achieve with remote workflows, we can help. We’ve been running our media kit remotely for nearly five years, with all our equipment stored in our UK datacentre and operated from Soho. Over that time, we’ve trialled a number of competing technologies, and are able to offer live demos of many remote solutions.
If you want to manage the move to remote working
Here is a selection of new products that will help you achieve a stable, futureproof workflow. Amulet is the last word in PC over IP, delivering superb sound and picture quality from remote, centralised storage to up to four monitors even over standard commercial internet with full administrative control. Equip your editor with an Amulet Hotkey zero client, and they can attach it to any keyboard, display and internet connection and start editing. Leostream’s Gateway solution is a simple and secure way to give remote workers access to your network without them needing a VPN. All users need to do is connect their Amulet Hotkey zero client to their home network and enter the IP address of your Leostream Gateway. Zero configuration is required. And with Leostream Connection Broker you can remotely manage permissions and secure connections within an automated protocol. Whether a machine room in Soho or datacentre, you want to use space and the Dell 3930 is the latest in high-density storage with a small footprint.
The move from capex to opex
There are an increasing number of solutions that don’t require require any hardware investment at all. Avid’s Edit on Demand service allows editors to connect to Media Composer workstations and NEXIS workspaces, hosted by Avid in the cloud. Rather than buy hardware, you buy access rights to these hosted services, which you can then use on an as-needed basis. EditShare’s ESFv similarly allows you to rent hosted EFS storage and access EditShare’s more application agnostic Flow asset management toolkit without any investment in hardware. The experience of accessing these solutions remotely is indistinguishable from working on hardware that’s in the same room, and they offer the advantages of low capital costs, scalability at peak, location flexibility, and 24 hour access without the internal running costs.
Via24 offers a more financially flexible cloud service
Jigsaw24 offers a suite of managed services called Via24, designed to make accessing remote and cloud services simpler for your engineers and accountants. Your hardware can be hosted and managed in our datacentre. We’ll provide monitoring, feedback, tech support and any management you require, and can act as a central hub for all your cloud services. Whether you need Avid cloud instances, EFSv or any other service, we can consolidate all your platforms into a single service, complete with easy to understand reporting and billing that you can invoice by project.
We can even alert you if a given project seems to be taking up more resources than planned, so you can square things with your clients as early in the process as possible. Rather than paying upfront for hardware and licence where future work is less predictable, providers can bill you based on how often data is accessed, how much storage you use, how much you download, and other factors.
Want to see remote solutions in action? Get in touch on 03332 409 210, email
broadcast@Jigsaw24.com or visit
Jigsaw24.com
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